Quotes – Page 4

Now why should there be a special word for a man with dark skin? There was no special word for a man with blue eyes, or large ears, or curly hair. There was no ---

One does not become accustomed to impatience with time.

I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.

How could someone let himself be so ruled by a monomania.

Fashion might always shift to mustaches or cheek curls.

Work out the pattern and each little event becomes inevitable.

Only fear could ensure absolute loyality. That and nothing else.

They can't rule forever. No one can. They'll grow soft and lazy. They will become corrupt. But it may take centuries, because history doesn't hurry.

Don't think it's enough to replace one set of rulers by another.

All governments kill as part of the nature of things.

Observe the universe, young man. If you can't force amusement out of it, you might as well cut your throat, since there's dammed little good in it.

It is always very fashionable to assume that there are lost arts and lost sciences, and there are always these people who make a cult of primitivism and who make all sorts of ridiculous claims for the prehistoric civilizations on Earth.